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Here in the U.S., the presidential election season, like Christmas, seems to start earlier and earlier each time.
In keeping with this, the Democratic National Committee is making waves by announcing that it will exclude Fox News, which has the largest viewership of the major cable news networks by a considerable margin, from debate coverage of DNC presidential candidates.
Thomas Lifson outlines a number of reasons this may not be a good move.
One is that from a historical and strategy perspective:
Presidential debates inevitably favor the challengers. Trump can push them in that direction by agreeing to debates only if Fox News is included. That forces them to either accept FNC or have no debates at all. If they accept, that makes FNC the debate worth watching. The rest are discredited as Democrat "safe spaces,"
And it appears he has pounced and done exactly that from his twitter account:
Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!
Really all either party has to do is A) not be crazy and/or B) keep their idiot mouths shut to win.
Neither of these seems to be in the cards dealt to either side, so it should be a heck of a ride.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:34PM (1 child)
If you ignore the socialism, the two had a decently similar message. It was anti-globalist. It favored the American worker.
It makes some sense that one would be a second choice for the other. If you can't get one anti-globalist, go for the other anti-globalist.
People who made this move are fond of posting recent (2019) messages from Bernie in /r/The_Donald. The messages start off asking if a person is still with Bernie, presumably intending to follow with a request for funding. The voters respond in various ways, sometimes funny. There are complaints about 2016 donations being turned over to Her. There are simple "MAGA" responses. Some go on detailed rants about how they've seen the light.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:44PM
Ah yes, another fool sucked into the black hole of TD propaganda. So you're answer is a long winded "no", got it.
I imagine you frequent https://old.reddit.com/r/TopMinds [reddit.com]